| 100% | DEEP | 4 | Sea, with "the" |
| 99% | MARITIME | 8 | Connected with the sea or naval affairs |
| 99% | COASTLINE | 9 | A country's boundary with the sea |
| 99% | NAVAL | 5 | To do with the military at sea |
| 99% | ESSENE | 6 | Mystic associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| 97% | INFINITY | 8 | __ pool, it appears to merge with the sea |
| 97% | ESSENE | 6 | Jewish sectarian associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| 96% | KAZAKHSTAN | 10 | Nation with the longest shoreline on the Caspian Sea |
| 96% | CROATIA | 7 | Country with the longest border along the Adriatic Sea |
| 95% | GEOID | 5 | Imaginary surface coinciding with the earth's sea level |
| 95% | HAI | 3 | River in China connecting Beijing with the Bohai Sea |
| 94% | TIGERSHARK | 10 | Large creature of warm seas with dark vertical stripes on the body |
| 94% | RHYS | 4 | Novelist Jean with the 1966 best seller "Wide Sargasso Sea" |
| 94% | ENO | 3 | Brian with the album "Small Craft on a Milk Sea" |
| 92% | TIDAL | 5 | Having to do with the rise and fall of the sea |
| 92% | BANANARAMA | 10 | "Foodie" pop group with the 1983 debut album "Deep Sea Skiving" |
| 92% | ATLANTIC | 8 | The __ Sea Raven is bright yellow with prickly fins |
| 89% | NAUTICAL | 8 | Having to do with sailing and the sea |
| 88% | NEMO | 4 | The Seas with ___ & Friends (Epcot attraction based on a Pixar film) |
| 88% | ERITREA | 7 | Country with hundreds of islands in the Red Sea |
| 86% | NARWHAL | 7 | Sea creature with the scientific name Monodon monoceros ("one tooth, one horn") |
| 85% | IFEELFREE | 9 | Cream song with the lyric "Dance floor is like the sea, / Ceiling is the sky" |
| 84% | TON | 3 | Suffix with "plank" to mean microscopic organisms floating in the sea |
| 84% | IRAN | 4 | Land with coasts on both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf |
| 84% | DARIN | 5 | Bobby —, singer-actor who had a hit with Beyond the Sea |
| 84% | JONAHANDTHEWHALE | 16 | Bible story that begins with "a mighty tempest in the sea" |
| 81% | BOSPORUS | 8 | Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara |
| 81% | JONES | 5 | Davy ___, sailor's devil with a "locker" you may find under the sea |
| 80% | SARA | 4 | Fleetwood Mac song with the lyric "Drowning in the sea of love / Where everyone would love to drown" |
| 80% | URSULAANDRESS | 13 | "Dr. No" actress who shares her first name with the sea witch in "The Little Mermaid": 2 wds. |